Re: Pascal vs C style string ?

[re counted versus null terminated character strings, and a comment pointing
out that counted strings can contain any values]


: True, but *character* strings should only contain valid
: *characters*. The real moral of the story is that you should be using
: a data representation appropriate to the data to be represented. :-)


: If you want to deal with arrays of bytes, you should deal with
: arrays of bytes. :-)


But this way you are duplicating code. If string and array of bytes can
use the same underlying code, it is a good deal no ? :-)


What about *characters* ? This is another question. But you should know
that even C do use control char. Plain characters only are not very useful in
today's world of real applications.


Frederic
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